Three Iraqis who aided CIA w/info for decapitation attack have been executed...CIA/Delta Force after 30 Top Iraqis+Uday

conjur

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news link (UPI)

Sources told UPI that Iraqi counterintelligence killed the three, shooting two and cutting out the tongue of a third, who bled to death. They said U.S. intelligence had learned this from their forces on the ground in Iraq

But I love this part:

A senior administration official told UPI that Saddam had suffered two burst eardrums in the attack, and "was bleeding from the nose and mouth." This source added that Saddam was so disoriented by concussion damage that he was in "a vegetative state" for hours after the strike.

Another administration official said that Saddam was "definitely alive" after the strike and appeared on Friday, March 21, wearing glasses because of concussive damage to the capillaries of his retinas.


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CIA paramilitary teams, working with Delta Forces, still are inside Iraq, attempting to kill 30 top Iraqi leaders, including Saddam's other son, Uday, who commands the Iraqi Fedayeen, several U.S. sources said. One administration official confirmed that U.S. intelligence has the names, addresses and cell phone numbers of the 30 targets.
 

Alistar7

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May 13, 2002
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great details...

CIA Paramilitaries....:Q with a list of 30 names, no wonder small arms fire has been heard in Baghdad.
 

Alistar7

Lifer
May 13, 2002
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is this old news? am I the only one who missed all the good deatils in that article?
 

LH

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Its not really old news per say, but its been known we've had CIA and Delta in and around Baghdad for awhile. Alot of the CIA Paramilitaries are former Deltas. Its also likely we've had CIA and Deltas in Iran and NK for just as long.
 

Alistar7

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May 13, 2002
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what about the attack details and the operations they have carried out, that was all new to me.
 

BarneyFife

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I'm just wondering how they could have Americans in Baghdad without anyone noticing? What do they mean by they had Delta force in Baghdad? Where do they live? Don't people get suspicious?
 

Alistar7

Lifer
May 13, 2002
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better yet what are CIA Paramilitaries whose group names cant even be mentioned...

some of these guys were also in on the rescue.
 

apoppin

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Originally posted by: BarneyFife
I'm just wondering how they could have Americans in Baghdad without anyone noticing? What do they mean by they had Delta force in Baghdad? Where do they live? Don't people get suspicious?
They'd probably be Arab operatives recruited by out CIA. Non arabs would need a "safe" place so as not to be noticed.

I also guess that the Delta Force and other military special ops would be working very near targets that are getting bombed - confusion makes an excellent cover.

In the beginning of the war it would be much more dangerous as Saddam's counter intellegence would be more organized . . . now, I think it would be much easier now to operate more openly. (but then what do I really know?)

 

Alistar7

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Reports of small arms fire were heard right after some locations had been bombed...mop up crews.